The Orange Path

Really Creative Destruction

Nick Gillespie interviews Tyler Cowen
Reason Magazine, Aug-Sep 2003

Cowen contends that "cross-cultural exchange...creates a plethora of innovative and high-quality creations in many different genres, styles, and media," and that such exchange "expands the menu of choice, at least provided that trade and markets are allowed to flourish."

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Culture and Enterprise: The Development, Representation and Morality of Business

By Don Lavoie and Emily Chamlee-Wright
The Cato Institue, 2001

Though often mathematically modelled in dry terms, markets can be looked at instead as meaningful domains of human activity. To economists, markets have been seen as nothing but objective 'forces' or allocation 'mechanisms'. This book, however, argues that they can be seen as involving the human spirit, personal expression and moral commitments. It presents the view that markets are not so much things that need to be measured as meanings that need to be narrated and interpreted.

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The Case for Contamination

by Kwame Anthony Appiah
New York Times. Jan 1st 2006

1. I'm seated, with my mother, on a palace veranda, cooled by a breeze from the royal garden. Before us, on a dais, is an empty throne, its arms and legs embossed with polished brass, the back and seat covered in black-and-gold silk. In front of the steps to...

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